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24,500 KIDS Have smoked their first cigarette Since Last week.

Looking at what we were able to accomplish this session and given the poor budget climate, we would classify the 2009 MD General Assembly Session as a very successful session for the cancer control community.

Please urge your federal legislators to make quality, affordable health care available to all Americans. To fill our a "Picture A Cure" form, go to www.fightcancer.org/relay and click on "Picture A Cure" to send a message to your federal legislators.

Join an ACT! Team! Help the American Cancer Society maximize our legislative impact on the local, state and federal level by participating on an Ambassador Constituent Team (ACT!). ACT! Members work together to urge your legislators to make cancer a legislative priority by emailing, calling and attending constituent meetings with

Although the revenue reprojection committee will announce their official updated figures April 28, this morning the Appropriations heard some updates.

Every day the Senate delays passage of this lifesaving piece of legislation, 3,500 kids targetted by Big Tobacco, smoke their first cigarette. Throughout the campaign, the ad will tally the growing number of children who take their first puff every day by showing the number of schoolhouses those children would